Michigan Tech’s arts and entertainment scene is vibrant and diverse. The University is home to the
area’s premier performing arts venue, the Rozsa Center, and the unique black-box McArdle
Theatre in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Whether you have a taste for fine art, drama, music, films, lectures, or cultural
diversity, it all happens right on campus. The Keweenaw as a whole also offers endless
ways to have a memorable outing and take in the Copper Country’s culture.

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) (see map) sponsors a variety of events throughout the school year. Performance venues include
on-campus locations, such as the Rozsa Center and McArdle Theatre, as well as off-campus
locations, such as the Calumet Theatre. Students can attend VPA events at no additional cost thanks to the Experience Tech
fee.

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The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts (see map) hosts a number of performing arts events throughout the year as artists, performers,
musicians, and lecturers make their way to Houghton. Big-name performers and acts
at the Rozsa Center have included Bob Saget, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, Garrison
Keillor, Yellowcard, and the Alan Parsons Live Project, just to name a few. The 80,000-square-foot
facility includes a main stage, as well as an art gallery, recital facilities, a ticketing
office, a concessions stand, practice rooms, dressing rooms, a scene shop, classrooms,
conference rooms, and offices. The building’s architecture reflects the inclined look
of the local copper mine hoists and shaft houses.

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The flexible black-box McArdle Theatre (see map) is host to theatrical performances, productions by the Tech Theatre Company and
Visual and Performing Arts students, concerts, music festivals, film festivals, art
shows, and more. The theater’s pitch-black interior, boxy design, and adaptable seating
allow it to be transformed to fit a production’s unique needs. Located on the second
floor of the Walker Arts and Humanities Center, the McArdle Theatre is housed in the
Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

The A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum (see map) boasts one of the finest collections of minerals in North America. Be awed by the
artistic beauty of nature's creations. Stop by to inquire about tours and to have
your mineral and geology questions answered. A small admission fee is charged (Michigan
Tech students get in free with a student ID).

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The Ford Center (see map) is located in the heart of the extensive hardwood and jack-pine-plain forests of
the beautiful Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In 1954 the Ford Motor Company
donated 1,700 acres to Michigan Tech. Today, the Center occupies 4,609 acres and consists
of a conference center, the University’s research forest, and the historic village
of Alberta and sawmill museum (open to the public).

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More than 100 limited-edition prints and original watercolors by three nationally
renowned wildlife artists are on display in the U. J. Noblet Forestry and Wood Products
Building (see map). The artwork features Michigan scenes and indigenous wildlife.